PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-04-27DOI: 10.3366/PARA.2020.0340
Albertine Fox
{"title":"The Auditory Imagination and the Polyphony of Listening: A Study of Chantal Akerman's South (1999)","authors":"Albertine Fox","doi":"10.3366/PARA.2020.0340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/PARA.2020.0340","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I consider the presence of negative space in the form of imaginative listening spaces in Chantal Akerman's documentary South (1999). This article examines the workings of memory and imagination from an auditory perspective, aided by two conceptions of the imagination, set out by Hannah Arendt and Toni Morrison, which I equate to a process of listening. Focusing my attention on the ‘inverted face’ or ‘back’ of the face-to-face encounter, my study brings together Don Ihde's work on relative silence and the auditory imagination, Max Silverman's concept of ‘palimpsestic memory’ and Sara Ahmed's theorizing of a ‘politics of sides’. It suggests that a polyphonic mode of listening is required if the spectator is to see with doubled vision, beyond a racialized dichotomy, thereby gaining access to the ‘non-forms’ of hidden voices, stories and histories.","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"265-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42284282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0324
Peggy Kamuf
{"title":"Chris Johnson's Writing Lesson","authors":"Peggy Kamuf","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0324","url":null,"abstract":"This essay traces the insistent and repeated attention Christopher Johnson pays to the episode in Tristes tropiques that Levi-Strauss calls ‘The Writing Lesson’ and that Derrida reads as a parable ...","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"114-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3366/para.2020.0324","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41614542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0317
N. Harrison
{"title":"Introduction: Chris Johnson in his Writing","authors":"N. Harrison","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46050554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0318
C. Johnson
{"title":"Leroi-Gourhan and the Field of Ethnology","authors":"C. Johnson","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0318","url":null,"abstract":"The work of French ethnologist and prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan (1911–86) represents an important episode in twentieth-century intellectual history. This essay follows the development of Leroi-...","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"10-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41960070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0321
M. Hobson
{"title":"‘Give us back our eleven days’: Brexit or Breaksit?","authors":"M. Hobson","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0321","url":null,"abstract":"A major adjustment to the British calendar occurred in 1752. This was the passage from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, inaugurated in the sixteenth century by command of Pope Gregory XIII in ...","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"71-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44919273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0319
T. Cave
{"title":"Imagining the Emergence of the Human: Reflections on Chris Johnson's Late Work","authors":"T. Cave","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0319","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a series of commentaries and reflections on certain of Christopher Johnson's lines of argument as perceived from the perspective of cognitive studies, with particular reference to...","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"45-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45003602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0323
M. Syrotinski
{"title":"On (Not) Translating Lacan: Barbara Cassin's Sophistico-Analytical Performances","authors":"M. Syrotinski","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0323","url":null,"abstract":"Barbara Cassin's Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis, recently translated into English, constitutes an important rereading of Lacan, and a sustained commentary not only on his int...","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"98-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44930716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0322
Michael Holland
{"title":"Translating Mouvement, Translating Movement","authors":"Michael Holland","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0322","url":null,"abstract":"A particular problem arises for the translator when a word has no equivalent in the target language, because what it refers to is something that the speakers of that language simply do not think. The French term mouvement is a case in point. All French dictionaries give prominence to a definition of the term which relates it to impulse, sentiment and passion and characterizes it positively as a ‘sign of life’. By contrast, although the OED records that movement may refer to ‘a “moving” of the mind’, ‘an impulse of desire or aversion’, it defines this usage as now obsolete. The article begins by tracing the problem as it arose during the translation of some of Maurice Blanchot's early writings, before going on to show that, in Blanchot's use of it, the term mouvement eventually parts company with all of its received meaning in French, and refers to the movement whereby language itself becomes writing when image is allowed priority over rational thought. From having been a problem, therefore, the interruption of exchange between French and English for the translator of mouvement foregrounds translation itself as the site of an original mode of writing.","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"84-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48197377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PARAGRAPHPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.3366/para.2020.0320
L. Hill
{"title":"‘The Prey or the Shadow’: Klossowski, Kierkegaard, Desire","authors":"L. Hill","doi":"10.3366/para.2020.0320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2020.0320","url":null,"abstract":"During the late 1930s, towards the beginning of a long and colourful career as a translator, writer, novelist and painter, Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) proved an attentive reader of the work of the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55). This article examines Klossowski's twofold engagement with Kierkegaard, the first in the form of a commentary, published in Bataille's magazine Acephale in 1937 addressing the Dane's use of Mozart's Don Giovanni in his philosophical treatise Either — Or, the second, a year later, being a translation of an essay by Kierkegaard, also originally part of Either — Or, offering an alternative interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone to the one proposed by Hegel. The aim of the article is to examine how Klossowski, in these texts, problematizes the possibility of mediation and translatability, and emphasizes instead the irreducibility of immediacy, secrecy, indirection.","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"43 1","pages":"58-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45532171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}